Ensuring people in vulnerable situations are seen as valuable and capable so that everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Inspiring honoring perceptions
Increasing Understanding of complex problems
Connecting People and Ideas
supporting and encouraging organizations and people
Creating Impact by:
Producing
I produce a wide range of media and communications pieces to enhance social media engagement, website presence, and fundraising and advocacy campaigns.
- Photography
- Promotional videos
- Podcasts
- Copywriting
- Documentary films
- Fundraising and advocacy campaigns
Facilitating
I facilitate the complex, strategic conversations that define organizational identity and strategy.
- Understanding and defining your WHY
- Crafting mission, vision and value statements
- Brand identity and strategy development
- Audience analysis
- Communications strategy development and execution
- Executive communications strategies
Developing
I enjoy working with organizations, staff, and team members to develop the communications skills and ethical frameworks that drive dignified communications, and successful brand strategies.
- Ethical storytelling
- Basic media skills
- Social media management
- Campaign planning and execution
- Content planning and organizational storytelling
- Executive communication leadership
- Internal communication dynamics and vision casting.
Educating
I write, teach and produce workshops and educational courses on:
- Effective communication practices
- Ethical storytelling
- Humanitarian photography
- The unintended effects of humanitarian media
- Brand ethics
- Campaign planning and execution
- Social media management
Researching
I review and conduct research on nonprofit communications to help organizations understand how to increase engagment and better advocate for systemic change.
My research interests include:
- Communications practices
- Movement building and cause advocacy
- Media effects
- Brand strategy
- Social media engagement strategies
- Ethical storytelling and media production
Sharing Dots
Sharing Dots is a boutique creative agency I co-founded in 2015. Sharing Dots uses strategic communication and media production to help organizations and their clients be seen, heard, understood, and acquire the funding needed to expand their impact.
I work with organizations all over Asia who are engaged in many different forms of humanitarian work. A recent brand strategy, video production and website design project was instrumental in helping Friends of Thai Daughters raise more than $850,000 to build a new campus.
5DayDeal
5DayDeal is a social impact company I co-founded in 2013. During my tenure as CEO from 2013 to 2014 the company achieved its goals of more than $2 million in revenue and $250,000 donated to charity. 5DayDeal offers great deals on photography education and training while raising money for charitable causes around the world.
I sold the company to my co-founders and partners in 2015 and they have continued to create exceptional value for their customers and have increased the charitable impact of the business to more than $2.5 million since 2014.
About Bryon
Nonprofit Communications
Bryon holds an M.A. in Strategic Communication from California Baptist University. He is a serial entrepreneur, skilled in the development and incubation of business and nonprofit ventures, and helping organizations maximize the impact of their programs and communications.
As the co-founder and creative director of Sharing Dots, a boutique creative agency specializing in strategic communications consulting and media production for NGOs in Asia, he has partnered with more than 100 organizations and individuals in 13 countries. He specializes in the areas of child vulnerability, anti-trafficking, and media and communication ethics.
Bryon enjoys helping organizations and individuals develop strategic frameworks for change and articulate how their visionary thinking empowers individuals and transforms communities. His passion is to see people suffering from marginalization and vulnerability experience safe and abundant lives within healthy communities.
Past Clients
